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Kroger/Albertsons merger on trial

Kroger and Albertsons are the big fish that swallowed up almost all other grocery competitors. Now Kroger proposes to swallow Albertsons.
Jobs

Stores Kroger and Albertsons plan to unload

Is your local grocery store one of the ones Kroger wants to sell to wholesaler C&S if the merger goes through? Check out the complete list.
Jobs

Kroger-Albertsons merger about to hit headwinds

The merger will have to get past four separate judges in the next two months. There are signs that investors don't think it will happen.
Jobs

FTC sues to stop Kroger-Albertsons merger

In court filings the antitrust agency says letting the two giants join would harm union grocery workers in particular.
Jobs

Washington AG sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger

More than half of Washington supermarkets are either Kroger or Albertsons owned. The merger would eliminate head-to-head competition.
Jobs

Decision nears on Kroger-Albertsons merger

If Biden’s FTC approves it, a combination of Kroger and Albertsons would create a near-monopoly. The two of them own 40 grocery chains in all.
Workers Rights

The software that ate my paycheck

What’s behind the incredible string of payroll ‘errors’ at Fred Meyer, Providence, and the State of Oregon?
Jobs

Albertsons’ $4 billion dividend moves forward

Attorneys general are concerned the dividend could cripple Albertsons at the same time regulators are evaluating the company's proposed merger with Kroger.
Jobs

Washington sues to stop Albertsons’ $4 billion dividend

Unions representing grocery workers say the outsized payout could destroy the nation’s number two grocery chain.
Collective bargaining

At the ‘Big 3’ grocers, bargaining begins with UFCW

Despite a new Oregon law, sick leave may still be an object of contention in the contract talks
Retirement

Unions ask Congress to let distressed pensions trim retiree benefits

10 million workers are covered by multiemployer pensions, but at least half are in serious trouble
Collective bargaining

UFCW grocery workers ratify more contracts

Some 14,000 workers in Oregon and Southwest Washington have wrapped up voting on new three-year contracts.
Collective bargaining

Grocery workers ratifying new contracts

The contracts covering 14,000 include a 25 cent raise and 15% health insurance increase.
Collective bargaining

Mayor-elect Hales to grocers: ‘No one wins in a race to the bottom’

Hales spoke to union grocery workers before a scheduled round of bargaining.

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